@TimStone This quote is exactly what I was about to share. It's completely nuts.

But also not surprising at all

There's more but I'm too lazy to get it

Anyway, very odd focus from the WH mailer today!

Even if Democrats take control of both chambers they're not ending up with a veto-proof majority so doesn't seem like it much matters

@TimStone or it's about the election, not the midterms

since Trump is more or less complaining for it

@TimStone dems are doing well with a healthcare message so gop is coopting it

Someone somewhere finds this line of rhetoric compelling and that person(s) should be slapped

Where are these magical activist nominations coming from?

I know it's been like twenty years since he won the GOP primary in June, but anyone remember the pimp running for office who claimed he texted Tucker all the time and then was, unshockingly, accused of sexual assault?

He died:

What a crazy year

> "Hit them where they’re strong.” That’s the political approach Karl Rove, veteran Republican campaign strategist, employed to convince the majority of the American people to vote for George W. Bush for President not once, but twice. It’s a brilliant political strategy because it forces the opposition to defend strengths they had all but taken for granted, and in the process, expose their own weaknesses.

> Liberal and National senators on Monday backed the motion - which also claimed "anti-white" racism was on the rise in Australia - before blaming an administrative error a day later and demanding a second vote.

yep, that's a thing

"oh we didn't know what we was voting in support for, we want a second vote so we can change out stance"

it's a shame this kind of Mulligan can't be called on the US Election

ok that might explain why twitrss has been unstable today'

> “She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!”

so Stormy Daniels will confirm that she tricked you in thinking she had stuff on you so you would pay hush money, as apart of a agreement you had no knowledge of. i know how Alice felt falling down the rabbit hole

also not sure what he can go after her on because the lawsuit that she had that was thrown out was a deformation one

@TimStone holy shit

@TimStone i can't even

Wow, they had the consul's actual office bugged?

That's a pretty good plant

But yeah, just horrible :/

jesus what a source to burn over a thing that the trump admin is not going to do shit about

Yeah, I suspect they felt like they had no choice but to try. Not that Turkey is likely too concerned with the whole "silencing dissidents" thing but for some other country to come in and do it so brazenly on their soil? Whew. Can't let MSB think that kind of "I do what I want, where I want" is gonna fly

Ahhh I see Steve King is out here endorsing a white nationalist for Toronto Mayor

Yeah

We touched on this the other day but surprising they're just coming right out and blaming hedge funds so directly

Motion to replace all instances of "Millenials have killed" with "Hedge funds have killed"

@TimStone until Hedges are ran by Millenials

then we can go back to blaming them again

@Memor-X nah the boomers are never gonna give up that cushy spot

@GodEmperorDune oh they will

Millenials will pry it from their cold dead hands

I mean the boomers are trying to cook us all alive so they might win

@TimStone lol, i like the idea that climate change deniers are just Boomers wanting to make sure that Millenials don't win

@TimStone long term the planet will win

Y3K millennials, fair

@GodEmperorDune but the planet already has all the Hedges

Organizing Tech: Insights into the Tech World’s Sudden Rebellion

I should join IU 560

Ah,

Oh hey, if I visit you guys in Canada, could I smoke pot? I know some places where marijuana is legal still have some restrictions for travelers to discourage drug tourism.

@Yuuki restrictions on where you can smoke may apply but AIUI there are no restrictions on tourists buying or consuming as long as they have ID that shows they're of age

@Yuuki here's an FAQ: globalnews.ca/news/4438410/…

Oh wow, "an FAQ" looks awful but "a FAQ" sounds awful, gg English

@Memor-X Appositive use, Trump admits to being a total con, data accepted.

@GodEmperorDune Ugh, of course

I… 🤷🏼‍♂️

fun fact, video (especially live, including "was live") is weighted very heavily in The Algorithm on facebook

I will reiterate, office-space-fire.gif

Seems like she might be……Rushing into this

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh my veins!

@TimStone Excellent

@TimStone disappointed that it wasn't JD instead, which would have been cool

Because that guy sucks lol

lol at discovery in Sines v Kessler

fuck yeah nyt

awesome

ayfkm?

Since we're already on a roll today,

we're going to die

we're so fucking dead lmao

between this and Matt Bruenig's shit yesterday lol

comrades keep going on like "well, if we're here we all have some hope that we can change course" like, no the fuck I don't, but it's a longshot worth trying for

since there's literally no other option

At one point a few years back, I'd flippantly say that we terraform Mars and start over there while the climate deniers can stay on Earth, but now it seems that Musk is a bunghole so there goes the Mars option.

I mean, even if he wasn't the timescale for building a self-sufficient colony on Mars, let alone terraforming it, is long enough that it's not a viable escape hatch for climate change

It's the kind of thing that's nice to have in case of another Dinosaur Killer hitting Earth or something but it won't save us from our own mistakes.

@TimStone i guess he misses the slick feel of an ostritch skin vest

@TimStone hell yeah

@Unionhawk This seems extra absurd given that we really only need to start with energy production

@TimStone is there a spiderman -NYPD but where there are 3 spidermen?

Like all those top 100 companies are energy producers, it's not like we're even entering consumer product territory

@ToxicFrog i mean if we figured out how to terraform mars, wouldn't we just use it to terraform earth back to not being fuct?

@Unionhawk me 2020: nationalize all companies on the top 100 list

I mean probably

I thought for sure we'd get a chemical company or an agricultural company or something but no all energy

what is the top 100 by, market cap? revenue?

@GodEmperorDune I mean tbf I think some of them are

@Unionhawk Emissions

@Unionhawk no the pollution list

@TimStone ah crap you're right

ah

guess we have to nationalize those other countries too

dammit now i've become the british empire

I can't wait until we get to the simulation endgame tho

Wherein Trump decides we do need to do something and that something is widen the hole in the ozone layer to let the heat escape

It'll be Science, which he'll assure us he knows a thing or two about

@TimStone Yeah, to be clear, nationalizing all the things will not by itself solve the thing

But it is a necessary step

I mean Chinese coal is like 14%

Being able to direct production towards survival rather than profit is key

@GodEmperorDune Really what we should do is figure out how to not get rekt by sulfuric acid and we can live on Venus, Cloud City-style.

@Yuuki we just need to invent Wolfenstein Venus suit

With a coolant port and shit

@Yuuki i hear a startup named weyland yutani is working on acid-resistant skin

@GodEmperorDune [re: terraforming] not necessarily, since (a) Mars has very different starting conditions and (b) Mars lacks (as far as we know) anything we particularly need to keep intact, so options like "drop a dozen comets on it" are on the table

So what you're saying is that we can harvest some of our atmosphere and just ship it over there where we can forget about it, excellent

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@TimStone ship it using hyperloop

Space: now with a complimentary vacuum

all we need to do is nuke mars and it works

magic

(*this is not at all how it works)

@ToxicFrog excellent point

With their last dying breath the editors of the NYT will write a piece talking about how millennials killed the entire planet, can't wait

@TimStone uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

He's also delivering a letter from Kim Jong-Un asking the Pope to come visit? idk

@GodEmperorDune Yeah! It's uncomfortably weird!

Christianity a little less so because this is South Korea, but

@TimStone I always thought Protestants had a bigger presence in South Korea but I guess Catholicism is big too.

I have no idea why NK wants to invite the Pope honestly, I guess it's just a status thing

protip: this is not a good policy for how to save for college

and politicians really have to stop being dickish with restrictions when dangling money

if you want to pay people for having a kid, give money and let them figure out how to spend it

or y'know, try to do a real thing that will fix college debt load, $50 per person is really not going to do much more than collect dust

@Unionhawk neoliberalism dot jpg

Mail-in rebate for a $50 visa prepaid cash card

@TimStone apply right after the child is born/adopted, with any luck it will arrive before college debts are paid off

Incidentally, with a $50 starting investment assuming a ROI of 6% (it's a ballpark/default value in this calculator), through the magic of compound interest, your money will grow all the way to $142.72 after 18 years

Amazing!

why aren't we doing everything this way

apparently the average ROI for a 529 plan is 2%

@Unionhawk rekt

To be fair, 6% sounds like something you'd get from an index fund and 2% sounds like interest

@GodEmperorDune Yeah I don't think so.

@puzzlepiece87 either way it's going to take substantially more than $50 with interest/ROI to pay for college

@GodEmperorDune Quite! This whole idea is dumb.

@TimStone The catholic church doesn't officially consider Korea a split nation I think.

lmao, of course

"What's a little genocide if that's the best you can do with zero effort?"

lol

@TimStone I don't know anyone involved here.

how are those veins these days @TimStone?

@Yuuki Wait you don't know Ben Sasse?

@GodEmperorDune Reinforced

senator ben's asse imo

@TimStone I mean, sure, Aung San Suu Kyi being basically just a figurehead for the autocratic military is technically not her fault.

@TimStone May or may not sound familiar, but no.

@Yuuki Ben Sasse is a meh senator, a standard GOP jerk who would be worse but is outjerked by ted cruz et all

He's a recurring Senator on Guess That Empty Platitude!

@GodEmperorDune I mean, you have to really really try to out-do Ted Cruz even when he's on a bad day (which would be a good day for the rest of us).

jack "prilosec" is an alt-right troll/wannabe provocateur

Excuse me sir he is a very serious urine analyst

is he? I thought he lost clearance

or is pee not classified

It's like how you're still a doctor after they remove your license or whatever I can't remember what this is a reference about but it's something

and oh yeah, ben sasse does a lot of bad meming and trying to pull a "hello fellow students"

Yeah imagine making up a fake story that's premised on you getting owned by a lackluster senator

@GodEmperorDune He wants to fight Hannity

But no just "debate on how the media, both left and right, something something"

(that)

I'm going to go with a solid no, it would not be good for america

@TimStone wow that twitter background

its like the most workshopped wholesome thing i have ever seen

America™

> The parole board has decided Paul Bernardo will remain behind bars. In his first attempt at getting parole, the Ontario rapist and killer was denied.

On a completely unrelated note motion to admit Puerto Rico as a state but as a cost-saving measure on flags and flag accessories just combine the two Dakotas. Someone convince Trump it's the right thing to do in light of NK/SK pretend reunification

@TimStone i'd agree with this but not sure how much it would further mess up the indigenous people's voting rights there

also some state needs to just annex wyoming

@GodEmperorDune I'm not sure it could get much worse tbh

I was wondering why it ended up being split too

Political reasons and because everyone lived in two opposite corners of the territory apparently

@TimStone it was free state/slave state stuff iirc

that was west and regular virginia

the 13th amendment to the constitution of the united states had been in effect for decades prior to the admission of the dakotas (1865 vs 1889)

well then i am thoroughly rekt

Yeah, the Dakota split was because the Republicans wanted to admit two states that would vote their way, then some underhanded shit happened to force the Sioux to hand over land as they had claim to most of what became South Dakota

@GodEmperorDune Lol that far north?

@TimStone Thanks for this

@puzzlepiece87 Most pro-abolition/anti-slavery sentiment was in the industrialized north, IIRC. And the Dakotas were decidedly not industrialized.

Although there were other unindustrialized parts of the country (like... Kentucky, was it?) that tried to stay neutral and eventually swayed Union.

@puzzlepiece87 i mean there was a lot of weird deals to admit states

@GodEmperorDune I'm related to a principal engineer of those deals. I wrote my high school research paper on the guy, "Look at all the stuff he did to keep us together and work things out!" Present me wants to take high school me behind closed doors to challenge him to try harder in his thinking.

@puzzlepiece87 ehhh high school me did a lot of dumb stuff

god I can't wait for this to play out lol

@Unionhawk extremely same

also yay SURJ

but they won't go to jail because spiderman nypd

I briefly fell asleep on the floor as one does and woke up and it took my brain a few minutes to process Treasury SARs as something not-a-money-disease

@TimStone rekt

can this actually work or will the trump admin just ignore it?

I'm sure they'll ignore it, I dunno what happens next

> After $5 billion EU antitrust fine, Google will start charging for Android apps (changes to the MADA)

I'm torn, because while it is obviously bad Google can flex that muscle and collect data in that way under absolutely no circumstances whatsoever should any phone manufacturer be allowed to write software

Because they are all terrible at it and should stop immediately

@TimStone why is this so close to MAGA?

Look at the brashness with which Samsung refuses to kill Bixby

@TimStone its going to be blackberry all over again

@GodEmperorDune The legal world loves acronyms

@TimStone goddamn

Ugh. So Ars Technica has been re-publishing excellent past podcasts by Rob Reid by they screwed up today I think. They are currently re-publishing some with Sam Harris. @TimStone

Heh

Noted gunrunner checks notes Jesus

@TimStone isn't this the plotline to machine gun preacher?

the typical "i'm playing both sides"

@GodEmperorDune lol, I forgot that existed

@Memor-X dafuq

> Trump has denied climate change and claimed it was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.”

that's a new one

this is 100% not how science works at all

@Memor-X New one? That's one of his old campaign lines.

@Yuuki ahhhh i see. just never heard it before

like i've heard the one about it being a German Weapon to slowly warm up Russia as apart of an invasion plot

@Memor-X ahem, with what exactly are we supposed to invade?

we have some tanks with broomsticks instead of guns, I don't think that'll do

@Memor-X or a russian plot to get more arable land out of the arctic

some good news for a chnage